Derivatives

uniformitarian

The very possibility of volcanists in debate with neptunists, and catastrophists with uniformitarians, depends on the adoption of time-frames very different from those derived from the human life-span.

This is clear from the ‘father of uniformitarian geology’, James Hutton - see his assertion.

Much fieldwork remains to be done on Earth's ancient glacial climates using well-tried uniformitarian principles embodied in sedimentary basin analysis.